Brooklyn Couple Creates â€˜Uber for Housecleaningâ€™

A Brooklyn, New York area couple has created the “Uber for cleaningâ€ with their new app, Geniemates. The app lets you order on-demand housecleaning.

Currently only serving New York City, users can send a text via the Geniemates app describing the type of cleaning service they need. A “Geniemateâ€– a vetted, professional cleaner – will arrive at your home (or office) within the timeframe you specify.

The app is available on iOS or Android. A two-hour home cleaning (for places up to two bedrooms) is $80 and includes wiping, dusting, basic bathroom cleaning, vacuuming, and mopping. A three-hour cleaning job is $120 and $160 for four hours.

The co-founders of Geniemates, Steve and Sade Metellus, created the app based on their own harried schedules as full-time working Millennials raising a family in New York City.

Steve, whose background is in computer science and finance, built the initial iOS app over a weekend using Xcode and Amazon AWS for the database.

“We only needed to pay Apple’s required $99 registration fee for a developer account!” he says.

Sade’s professional background is in finance and business development. Both are former bankers of JP Morgan Chase.